The life unsolved
The life unsolved
Businesses want to solve everything
As if life, my life, were a problem
As if every problem had a solution
To get exactly what you pay for
Means no more lagniappe
No mystery, no silence, no life
:- Doug.
Archive for October, 2014
What remarkable things have you seen…?
What remarkable things have you seen in Open Space, particularly those which bring us to spirit, holy, larger, oneness?
:- Doug.
What is the life of a butterfly?
What is the life of a butterfly?
How much work in the wind?
How much fun it would be to glide
But butter takes a lot of churning
How often have I seen them glide?
:- Doug.
the underlying, deeper question
What is the underlying, deeper question of my work? It is How to find and release the larger within people, within the people. We are more than we are, and I have touched that. More of us can touch.
:- Doug.
Here, this is a safe time
Here,
This is a safe time
Grow quiet
You have the reserves
Stay, gather
You can go out
From here
:- Doug.
What is possible I have seen
What is possible I have seen
People dare, people do, people know things beyond their history
People lean into one another
So the circle opens out
They throw down their lives for strangers
We are and move the unmovable
We touch and are the unholdable
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1458–So many choices living
Footprints in the Windsm # 1458
There are so many choices—plain, metaphor, metonymy, pumpkin—enough for every day of living.
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The question I must live
To give my life to the larger
Is easier than to
Give my work
This is the question
I must live
:- Doug.
The long moment:
The long moment: take the long view, the long view held in a moment. A hundred years from now, what difference? A hundred years from now, what difference were you, did you, this moment?
:- Doug.
There is no one else to give to
We can’t give away—
There is no one else to give to
And yet—
:- Doug.
Are we not educators all?
Are we not educators all?
Leading out those around us
—And us if we attend—
Into a larger world?
:- Doug.
Of which we are
We need to connect this to something larger
Lead out us to something larger
Of which we are
:- Doug.
Wind and birdsong
One field is the air around us
Wind and birdsong
Leaves atwitter collecting sunlight
Phones ringing
Bustle of office churning churning
:- Doug.
It is not lack of time
It is not lack of time
It is lack of energy
Maybe energy is attention
:- Doug.
help them hear me
People have their hard and fast backwards thinking in all domains, especially in politics and religion. I need to allow that in so I can hear them, and then perhaps help them hear me. There is so much playing of old tapes, even new tapes, but recording new ones is the reality task. And then burning those new tapes, too.
:- Doug.
more indeterminate
With my study of Emily Dickinson, I am perhaps ratcheting to a new place: less adamant, more provisional, more indeterminate, more exploratory, more open to surprise, more open. More human, more open to reality.
:- Doug.
